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So this question is asking us to identify a term that is defined by general principles for organizing words into meaningful sentences.
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The options are given are linguistic determinism, lexicon, semantics, and syntax.
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And the thing about these sort of questions or statements rather is that it's almost always helpful to know the individual definitions for each option that you're given in order to better answer the question.
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So while process of elimination might work, you may come down to two terms in which you're kind of confusing or you don't know the exact definition of either terms.
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And that's where it really helps understand each concept and each option given.
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So that's what we're going to do.
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We're going to go about this by defining each option and see what best fits the question that we're given.
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So i'm going to first start off with linguistic determinism.
00:57
So the thing about linguistic determinism is that it's definitely.
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More of a psychology term than it is a linguistics term.
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While language acquisition is a big part of psychology, specifically developmental psychology and cognitive psychology, linguistic determinism really touches on how language essentially determines how we perceive the world, are specifically human knowledge and thought.
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And the way i remember this is i know linguistics has to do with language.
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And then the word determine is basically hidden in the word determinism.
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So basically language determines human thought.
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And human thought is super broad in that it could be anything that our cognition is capable of doing.
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So that deals with categorization of concepts and memory and perception.
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And it's basically, there's different ways of going about understanding linguistic determinism, whether it is limiting or whether it is just simply a difference in mother tongue, but rather the key thing to take away is that linguistic determinism basically is saying language determines how you think.
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And because of that definition, we know it's definitely not our right answer.
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It's really cool, though.
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Leaving us with lexicon semantics and syntax, which are very much more are linguistic terms that are just carried on into being defined simply because they're.
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Imperative and understanding language acquisition and the basics of language.
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So lexicon refers to the words of any given language.
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So there's no easy or kind of silly way of remembering this other than there's simply just words of language.
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So this doesn't really have much to do with sentences.
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Which is what our question is kind of getting at...